The Owl of Minerva

oct’25

04oct’25

The Mountain Holds Its Breath + Snow and Rain Shall Pass An image from Karin Alfredsson’s Snow and Rain Shall Pass with an overlay of Jon Fosse’s The Mountain Holds Its Breath from the same book.

Ultimately, it is an act of signalling: I think, therefore I mope. At some point, being smart and being worried about the world became conterminous. Pessimism is now a shortcut to intellectual respectability, like using orchestral strings in a pop song or filming in black and white.

The audacity of mope, Janan Ganesh
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